THAI SPAS
at the end of October, and two adults sharing a room. The fi ve-star resort’s Six Senses Spa won a Condé Nast Traveller award in 2011.
WESTERN AND ORIENTAL 020 7666 1213
www.wandotravel.com A week-long stay at Chiva-Som Resort in Hua Hin is from £1915 pp. The Chiva-Som is three hours’ drive from Bangkok and is a dedicated health resort, complete with 70 treatment rooms (making it the only destination spa/health resort in the world with more treatment rooms than guestrooms). There’s everything from detox and natural healing to yoga and weight management.
EDEN COLLECTION - 01244 567000
www.edencollection.co.uk Seven nights room only in a
luxurious Garden View Pavilion at the Four Seasons Resort in Chiang Mai are priced from £2115 pp (low season) or £2445 pp (high season). The resort is surrounded by paddy fi elds and mountains, and its spa has seven treatment suites, including options for couples.
Room Report Open since 2011, the Cape Nidhra Hotel in Hua Hin is around two- and-a-half hours from Bangkok and comprises 59 suites, each with a pool. Its Cape Spa has traditional and international treatments. Also open since last year is the much-lauded Casa de la Flora in Khao Lak. It has 36 glass-fronted beach villas across eight categories – the beach is visible from all bungalows. The hotel’s Spa La Casa has four treatment rooms, including two for couples.
SIMPLE PLEASURES AT WAT PHO TEMPLE BY BEn LErWILL
“It’s not just in the hotels and resorts that you can get the benefit of a spine- meltingly good massage. Bangkok’s glorious Wat Pho Temple is a case in point – not only is it home to more than a thousand Buddha images (including the much-photographed gold Reclining Buddha, 160 feet in length), it also has a dedicated massage school. Some even claim the temple as being the
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birthplace of traditional Thai massage, and I can certainly vouch for the quality of the treatments – a half-hour foot massage after two solid days of sun- baked sightseeing was enough to
render me blissfully slow and sleepy for the rest of the afternoon. Like so much about Thailand, its massage treatments have the simple ability to make you feel charmed to be there.”
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